'Citizens United' didn't kill democracy in U.S.

2:28 AM,
Nov. 24, 2012

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Over the nearly three years since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, the public has been bombarded with criticisms of that decision, particularly as the election approached. Some critics have gotten hysterical, claiming that it is the worst decision since Dred Scott; that it would allow billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson to buy the presidency for Mitt Romney; that it was the very death of democracy itself.

It seems the rumors of democracy's death were greatly exaggerated.

To be sure, this was a year of record political spending. Conservative Super PACs and other ...